Saturday, July 28, 2012

Tokyo has been photographed more times than we have all had hot dinners. Does the world need any more photographs of Tokyo? The answer is yes if they happen to be made by John Gossage. In his new bookwork THE CODE, Gossage has done the seemingly imposssible with a series of photographs that are fresh, compelling, mysterious and yet so simple.

THE CODE from Harper's Books,
2012.
First Edition. Quarto. Limited to 1000 copies. Published on the
occasion of Gossage's exhibition at Harper's Books, East Hampton, August
18 - October 1, 2012. A collection of color photographs shot in and
around Tokyo. While Gossage's trademark celebration of the banal is
certainly on display here, the photographer charts new territory with
shots of Tokyo street scenes, skyscapes and tissue boxes.
Fine in a fine jacket, sealed in shrink-wrap.

There is also a Deluxe Edition. Quarto. Limited to 26 SIGNED and numbered copies, and
issued with an original color ink-jet print, 8 1/2 X 11 inches, SIGNED by
Gossage and housed in a custom cloth folder and slipcase. Custom folder, gray slipcase.

About Me

My pictures explore the strange anthropology of cities. The unusual and overlooked in the human landscape.
I am asking the viewer to question the idea that photographs as documents are complete representations of subject.
I'm interested in the universality of life and the idea of parallel lives - when one thing is happening here, something else is happening over there. The democracy of non-places fascinates me, in the knowledge that inevitably nothing is as it seems.
I work and live between Auckland and Paris.
http://harveybenge.com/
email:harvey.benge@xtra.co.nz